-----Original Message-----
        From:   Mike Harrison [SMTP:wwl@NETCOMUK.CO.UK]
        Sent:   Tuesday, 1 September 1998 06:41 AM
        To:     PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
        Subject:        Re: (OT) Sping Loaded Battery Contacts Anyone?

        On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:07:00 -0300, you wrote:

        >Ok, I know this is way off topic on first glance, but the project
involves
        >a PIC in a hand-held instrument so I figured it kind-of applies
here.
        >
        >I'm designing a small hand-held instrument that is going to be
        >re-chargable.  Rather than spending a bzillion dollars on an
industrial
        >design I have found a suitable off the shelf enclosure that the
        >manufacturer will modify at a small cost.  There will be two
"contact" pads
        >on the unit that are about .2" (5mm) diameter.  I have been looking
around
        >for spring loaded pins that I can use to design into the mating
        >charger-holder unit but all I can find are the test point probes
that are
        >used in the bed-of-nails testing jigs that are used in production
and these
        >are far too small.
        >
        Some manufacturers of test-point type probes also make larger stuff
        for this type of application - Coda Systems in the UK do a huge
range
        of this sort of stuff - I'm sure there are many others.
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        I had need of something like this once in the past and found my
local spring manufacturer to have or be able to make almost anything I
needed very cheaply
        There should be one in your local phone book. Good luck